You know we love our sheepies.

Close up view of our new sheepies pattern! By Blake and Zoe August 2014

Another view of our new sheepies pattern! 

A Wool Bikini

Some of my work is still being shown as a part of the 2012 Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show (documentation coming soon), in addition to that - I'll be having a show with Kyle Channing Smith, called "As Comfortable as a Wool Bikini" at Studio 41.

MFA AUCTION (and other updates)

Apologies for the lack of updates recently.  Zoe & I try to post something up here at least once a week... but November has been quite busy.


First things first - I've been working like a madman in the print studio recently, and am working on two new litho's that fall in line with the one I recently posted (which btw - I decided looked better flipped around...) - when I can get a place with GOOD lighting, I'll post up all three


Also - scarves are coming back!  After a Skype conversation, we decided to make some more.  These will look very different than the first series.  I'm going to try and print them on Monday... so they'll be available just before Christmas


and Finally - the image for "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" will be available for sale at the Glasgow School of Art MFA Auction this December 3rd.  All the proceeds go to the MFA students' final show which will be held in Berlin (details on that a bit later)


It will be at The Birggait, 141 Bridgegate

6PM – Preview & Silent Auction with complimentary canapés and apéritifs

8:30PM – Live Auction begins

Lost Sheep in Glasgow (2011) by Blake Peterson & Zoe Phillips

What We've Been Up To...

Sorry for the long delay in updates onto the blog...


Zoe has been diligently working on her dollhouse project in San Francisco - we'll have photo's of it up soon.


The "Business Birds" print was made available on our Etsy site, and it sold QUICKLY (only being available for one day.)  It was in an edition of 10, so we'll have another available in the near future.  


Blake was a part of a small show at the GSA called "No White After Labour Day."  It consisted of work made over the summer by fellow Second Year MFA's at the Glasgow School of Art.


For the show, Blake included two portions from his "Truck Driver Series" - "Scene 10: Birdman of Athens, OH" and "Scene 11: Another One"


Also - Blake has been working on his "Saint Lucy" image some more.  He finally got the main image printed, and has added to some of the lines.  Next up is some flocking, and adding of some reflective surfaces.




At the bottom of this post are two more works-in-progress.  Carrying on from the original "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" project, Blake will be printing out one of the photographs Zoe took of him, but the areas of the 'sheep fluff' will be screen printed & flocked (the fluff area was made a bit grey to convey where the added texture is going to be).

"Scene 10: Birdman of Athens, OH" & "Scene 11: Another One" (2011) by Blake Peterson

Snapshot of portion of "No White After Labour Day" show, works by various artists

"Saint Lucy" - work in progress at Blake's studio in Glasgow

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow (Part Two)" - work in Progress (cotton area will be flocked)

"Lost Sheep in Glasgow (Part Two - Alternate Version)" work in progress

Hot Sheep in the Summer

Blake sweating in his sheep suit. photo by zoe

Preview photo from the next installment in the "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" project

photo taken in Iowa City

A sheepish drawing

Sheep, markers, pen, white glitter-glue, drawing by zoe

Lost Sheep In Glasgow

Here are the flyers that Blake & Zoe made for the "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" Project.

Blake will be showing the video piece and one photograph from the collaborative series at the Glasgow School of Art's MFA Interim Show.  The opening is this Friday, the 6th of May from 6 - 8 pm; and the show runs until the 14th of May.


Visitors to the exhibition will be able to pick up one of these flyers.

[Front] Zoe as Sheep, being engulfed by cotton; photo taken by Blake Peterson (2011)

[Back] Information about Sheep, and their Global Historical Impact; created by Zoe Phillips (2011)

Busy Busy Busy

Blake and Zoe have been up to a lot since the last update:


Each had a piece selected to be a part of the Govanhill Baths Art Auction, which is going on in Glasgow on the 17th of March.  We will have photographs of the selected pieces up shortly.


Additionally last week, Blake and Zoe completed another phase of the "Lost Sheep in Glasgow" series.  Dressed as a sheep Blake explored through the many alleys, hung out at the skate park, and ate some Gregg's - of course washing it down with IRN BRU.

Blake glares in the distance, photographed by Zoe (2011)

Waiting on a park bench, photographed by Zoe (2011)

Blake enjoying his IRN-BRU, but where are all the skaters? - Photographed by Zoe (2011)

Zoe, being swallowed whole by her outfit, Photographed by Blake (2011)

Waiting under a street lamp, Photographed by Blake (2011)

Waiting on the front steps, photographed by Blake (2011)

Also, within the next week - some of the images taken are going to be printed as large-format photographs...

...Plus...

This video was made by looping the photos taken while Blake was adjusting the back of his outfit.  The audio was taken from a song called "Chromophone Band" off an old Doctor Who episode.

A trip to Argyll and Bute

sheep study

So yesterday Blake, Zoe and two other MFA friends from the Glasgow School of Art went to the coast and visited the area of Argyll and Bute.

Blake bravely drove us around on the wrong side of the road from Cairndow all the way up to Oban and back. We stopped in Cairndow to eat at the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, which the three sea creature eaters in our group loved.

We then headed north, winding our way through pretty mountains and lochs until we reached Argyll's capital: Oban, where we got a nice peak at the sea and McCaig's tower.

Anyways, now Blake and Zoe are back and working on more scarves!

We should be cutting up the previous ones this weekend, and they'll be available for purchase through select outlets.

A Sheepish Preview

Blake hesitates before going outside

Like what you see?

These are preview images for another project Blake and Zoe are working on. We're thinking of calling it either 'Lost Sheep in Glasgow' or 'Bad Sheep in Glasgow' depending on how the photos turn out. Today Zoe helped suit up Blake, but as soon as we got out the door, it started to rain. Typical Scotland. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have the first set of images done.